The company is doing nothing illegal – it does state in the small print, if you look for it, that their services cost £79 and that it would be a lot cheaper to go directly to the US government official site.

There’s something really, really, really annoying about feeling that you’ve been conned and it is threatening to overshadow my friend’s trip.

She’s been told, of course, that things could have been worse – and to concentrate on the fact that after all these years she’ll soon be ticking off climbing the Empire State Building and hailing a yellow cab off her bucket list.

And with getting to the USA being such a hassle, I think I’ll stick to European travels, knowing I can simply sail through customs with my European pass ... sorry, what?

Ah, yes. We’ll leave it there.

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